just an FYI - don't panic
Steve Heimlich
Tue May 16 03:43:56 CEST 1995
Ok, reasonable answer. I think there's a large issue of operational coordination and support (at least from the U.S. RA) to which I alluded in some earlier email (not everyone included here). This is bound to come up at NANOG, which is a good thing. Steve > Steve, > > > Who will act as coordinator to get this stuff distributed? I assume > > that the RA in the U.S. can take the lead in this role if we were to > > provide source. > > The only thing close to an official answer to this question at the moment > is that RIPE is the home and custodian of the official distribution > source. > > At the RA, we've been trying rather hard to minimize any modifications to > RIPE code, if only to simplify importing further revisions of their code. > (But not making modifications is getting harder, as we get user pressure > to make email address parsing case-insensitive, add PGP, [add inet-rtr > support, if we aren't just looking for it in the wrong places today], > etc). > > The RA does post the radbserver (rpslserver) and RtConfig tookkit > distributions, which are separable packages from the RIPE distribution. > If we were to package and post our own "RIPE-181-modified by the RA" > distribution today, there might be some considerable confusion. > > The RA is generally willing to install Curtis' changes in our > implementation, though this needs discussion with the list since > our accepting such non-181 syntax would probably break implementations > and/or tools of other registries (such as RIPE itself) which import > that data and make it available to their tools (like prtraceroute). > > Clearly this all needs sorting out. (Maybe starting in the halls at > NANOG?) But for the moment, the answer is that RIPE is the custodian. > > --Dale > > > ============ From: Steve Heimlich > > > From heimlich at ans.net Mon May 15 21:21:43 1995 > > To: "Dale S. Johnson" <dsj at merit.edu> > > Cc: cengiz at isi.edu, curtis at ans.net, Tony.Bates at ns.mci.net, rr-impl at ripe.net > , > > selina at ans.net > > Subject: Re: just an FYI - don't panic > > Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 21:20:44 -0400 > > > > Dale, > > > > Who will act as coordinator to get this stuff distributed? I assume > > that the RA in the U.S. can take the lead in this role if we were to > > provide source. > > > > Thanks, > > Steve > > > > > > Is it OK if I added about 4 lines of code in enparse.pl to do Unix > > > > style backslash at the end of the line continuation? > > > > > > This is a great idea; I think it should be done. But... > > > > > > in order for this idea to be completely implemented, the change has to > > > be installed in Amsterdam, Reston, and Toronto as well as Ann Arbor; > > > and probably several places (ESNet, DSI, NASA, APNIC) that we aren't > > > sure of yet. > > > > > > Also, is enparse.pl part of any of the tools? Then it needs to be > > > changed in all the copies of those tools that anyone has FTP'd as > > > well. -------- Logged at Tue May 16 04:09:14 MET DST 1995 ---------
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